A Study on Rice Domestic Subsidy Policy in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Sheng-hsiang Hsu, 徐盛祥
• Other Authors: Yuan-ho Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9rr7d3

碩士 === 佛光大學 === 經濟學系 === 96 === The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) has been executed since 1995. Most of the developing countries and a small number of advanced countries think that the implementation of the Aoa is not so good. This has led to a low price of agricultural commodities on the world market. Thus, in agricultural negotiation on the Doha Round shall continue to reduce the production distortions and trade subsidies. Moreover, most of the developing countries think that it is unable to eliminate the production distortions and trade subsidies rapidly with a total AMS reducing. Thus, they request to adopt:  To reduce the Overall Trade Distorting Domestic Support (OTDS);  To reduce the Final Bound Total AMS in accordance with a tiered formula;  To limit Product-specific AMS. According to the actual data between 2003 and 2005 to calculate, it is no heavy pressure on the reducing of the OTDS and the AMS in Taiwan. As to the upper limit AMS for rice in Taiwan, its average upper limit AMS is set by the period of 1994 to 2000. Thus, the future upper limit AMS for rice is 5.06 billion. But, rice AMS in 2003 attained to 5.332 billion over the upper limit. To deal with the new round of agricultural negotiation, most of the member countries will be reduced agricultural production subsidy greatly and adopt green box or blue box that independent with price and quantities as a complement for the loss of price support program. Especially, Japan and Korea have eliminated rice price support policy and shift toward less distortion of production and trade policy. But in Taiwan, it still chose to raise price support that will proceed in opposite directions with the discipline of the new round on agricultural negotiation. It will cause an adverse for future agricultural negotiation in Taiwan. Therefore, this thesis will evaluate and review rice subsidy firstly and to analyze agricultural domestic subsidy for the possible of new disciplines secondary. In addition, this study will attempt to propose alternate rice policy to deal with new domestic subsidy disciplines.